Sat.May 04, 2013 - Fri.May 10, 2013

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DOD confirms China's cyberwar strategy, White House unveils open.

CTOvision

'DoD Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Department of Labor website hack highlights advanced attack trends ? The recent attack at the Department of Labor is bringing to the forefront advanced tactics and.

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5 Secrets A CIO Needs To Know In Order To Create A Social Media Plan

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to know how to find social media secrets. Image Credit. Darn that social media stuff! Just when you thought that the job of being a CIO couldn’t get any tougher , along comes this whole new way for the world to communicate. The arrival of social media has just boosted the importance of information technology. What makes things even tougher is that the rest of the company is waiting for you to tell them what the rules for using social media at work is….

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What Data Scientists Can Learn From Moneyball

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Wednesday, May 08, 2013. What Data Scientists Can Learn From Moneyball.

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Very Early Thoughts about EMC ViPR

Scott Lowe

'EMC announced ViPR today, the culmination of the not-so-secret Project Bourne and its lesser-known predecessor, Project Orion. Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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A guide to Rooting your Android phone - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Root One of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should ?root.? Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs ?superuser? access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems. By Werner Vogels on 10 May 2013 09:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have returned from a great series of AWS Summits in NYC and in Europe so it is time to get back to some weekend reading.

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Using GRE Tunnels with Open vSwitch - Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe

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Invincea: An update for the enterprise technology professional.

CTOvision

'For disclosure: I am on the Invincea advisory board. I'm incredibly proud of to be associated with those guys and I'm hoping my pleasure with them comes through in this post. Invincea delivers an enterprise grade breach.

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Is Uncertainty the New Normal & How to Deal with It

Future of CIO

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. - Charlie Sheen The pace of change is accelerated both in business and society, either as an individual or an organization, uncertainty (of outcomes or occurrences) is inherent in almost every endeavor, are we reaching such an uncertainty era? How to deal with the new normal?

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VirtualizedGeek Tech Talks Episode 12

Virtualized Greek

'Talking about home labs again. Go into a little detail of some sample hardware setups. My Dell 8500 Setup. My XPS 15 Setup. Link to the Blacks In Technology Site. Follow Blacks In Tech on Twitter @blkintechnology.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Stable of Horses - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Stable of Horses. by Brian Katz on May 8, 2013 · 1 comment. I spent part of today like I do many other days. I sat in a meeting where people were discussing technology and how to deploy it. It was a conversation that, while not above my head, had me swimming in daydream land. It wasn’t the first time this discussion had been had and certainly wouldn’t be the last time.

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Noted CTOs Chris Biow and Vin Sharma Present Webinar on.

CTOvision

'bigdata On Thursday 9 May 2013 two technologists I deeply respect will be providing a webinar (sponsored by Carahsoft) on achieving enterprise success with Hadoop. The following is from the event announcement.

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Three Aspects Why C-Level Business Executives Should Learn more about IT “Magic”?

Future of CIO

To have other business executives learn more about IT is actually part of the organization's Change Management Agenda. IT becomes so pervasive in today’s enterprise, however, for most of the business executives, IT is just like a costly “magic” they know little about, that's why they don't trust it so much. Should CIOs keep on fighting C-level's "magic" with rational means or should the other C-level execs be trained to understand technology to defeat the unhappy mixture of ignorance and faith?

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Heck yeah! Facebook's Open Compute Project is making an open source switch

Virtualized Greek

'Reblogged from GigaOM: The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn''t enough. On Wednesday, it said it would solicit input on an open source top-of-rack switch. The project, in a presentation by Frank Frankovsy at Interop, said it was taking a slightly different tack with its design, deciding to get input from others before actually making and releasing the hardware to the community.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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A Weekend with Facebook Home - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Facebook has grown from a small collegiate only social network site to a public one with an astounding 1.1 billion users today. Facebook has cornered the social media market, for the most part, and it doesn't look like they are.

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Don't forget to register for FOSE 2013 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'fose 2013 FOSE is the nation's premier event for government technology professionals who need tools, resources, and best practices to transition to the cloud, mitigate cybersecurity threats, and achieve the goals of the DGS.

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Laggard Rackspace growth sparks concern: is there enough cloud biz to go around?

Virtualized Greek

'Reblogged from GigaOM: Here''s the narrative that cloud vendors would like us to believe: there are infinite workloads flowing to clouds of infinite capacity. There''s enough business for all, keep moving. But there is nagging worry, sparked anew by Rackspace''s laggard Q1 cloud growth, that the appetite for cloud services may not be unlimited after all.

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CIOs as "Chief Investment Officer": The Practices of IT Asset Management

Future of CIO

Companies are highly dependent on IT executives who make the proposal to change/ replace the technology based on the need of the business. The IT accounting/finance best practices are going to vary somewhat from company to company, from state to state, and from nation to nation- due to standards and guidelines on depreciation of assets and taxes on assets.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Digital Mindset: Five Mind-Shift to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Changing the game is a mindset. -Robert Rodriguez Human minds are perhaps one of the most powerful but mysterious things in the universe, as they continue to imagine and invent things for changing the world; the fact is that the world now becomes more advanced, complex and dynamic than ever, while certain types of mindset may start lag behind, to put the other way, the "crazy" mind in industrial speed becomes new normal with digital speed; while the normal mind in industrial era becomes out of d

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